How To Install yakuake on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yakuake
on Debian 11.
What is yakuake
yakuake is:
YaKuake is inspired from the terminal in the Quake game: when you press a key (by default F12, but that can be changed) a terminal window slides down from the top of the screen. Press the key again, and the terminal slides back.
It is faster than a keyboard shortcut because it is already loaded into memory and as such is very useful to anyone who frequently finds themselves switching in and out of terminal sessions.
There are three methods to install yakuake
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install yakuake Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yakuake
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yakuake
Install yakuake Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yakuake
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yakuake
Install yakuake Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install yakuake
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yakuake
How To Uninstall yakuake on Debian 11
To uninstall only the yakuake
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yakuake
Uninstall yakuake And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yakuake
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yakuake
Remove yakuake Configurations and Data
To remove yakuake
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yakuake
Remove yakuake configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yakuake
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yakuake
Dependencies
yakuake have the following dependencies:
- konsole-kpart
- kio
- libc6
- libkf5archive5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5globalaccel-bin
- libkf5globalaccel5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5iconthemes5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5newstuff5
- libkf5newstuffcore5
- libkf5notifications5
- libkf5notifyconfig5
- libkf5parts5
- libkf5service-bin
- libkf5service5
- libkf5waylandclient5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yakuake
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.